[MLB-WIRELESS] Fw: [Syd-Wireless] World's Longest Wi-Fi Connection Made by The Swedish Space Corporation

Simon Butcher pickle at alien.net.au
Wed Jan 15 11:36:00 EST 2003


<snip>
> I think we have a good chance of trying to get a major ISP to 
> sponser us into doing something like this.... They can use 
> QoS to set our data at the lowest possible priority (hence we 
> get their "idle-time") on the link and therefore not get 
> anywhere near commercial service, but enough for what we want....
> 
> The main reason that the ISP should already exist in both 
> cities would be that the cost to the ISP of running this VPN 
> link over their "idle-time" should me almost nothing (read 
> maybe an extra $1 in power over a year)....
> 
> Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?
<snip>

Hmm, could we also use this to build tunnels from one side of Melbourne
to the other?

Still, interstate is cool, this has my vote - it's the only feasible way
I thought it would ever happen :)

 - Simon


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